Meeting the other grandparents.

Yes iv`e met both sets and get on really well.
We meet up for lunch about 4 times a year,covid not withstanding.

Chewbacca
Yes it’s lovely, we really like our oldest daughters in-laws, it’s been really nice to have had their company over the years at family occasions.
They are genuinely very nice people, we have been lucky.

I've become very close friends with DILs mum, we go out together regularly to theatre, cinema etc. Meeting up for lunch today actually. We also take our mutual GC, and her other GC, for days out altogether. It's been an unexpected bonus.

DD1 only has a FIL We met him a few times but he has lived in Thailand for the last 6 years. We see DD3s In Laws at family dos and get on perfectly well.

I have met them several times, but only at the adult children’s homes. We never meet up separately. I would have liked to meet up more but it has never happened.

Two sets of GP were alive when GC were born….one from each side of family. We were on foreign assignment until GS was 3 mos old. When we came home, there were many “directions” on proper care, etc. I bit my tongue and eventually the suggestions abated a bit. I felt like I was merely a backup GM. Suddenly, the other GM died! Through the years I have felt sad she missed so much. I have never regretted avoiding cross words with her even when tempted. Life presents so many twists and turns.

I met the other grandmother just once. Sadly she had Alzheimer’s and it was all very sad and difficult. She wasn’t really aware that she had a granddaughter but there are some lovely photos of the two of them. My granddaughter was only three when that grandmother died. She never knew the other grandfather either as he died many years ago.

One lot we are very good friends with, and have been for over twenty years now.
Our youngest daughters first in-laws, I speak to passing over our mutual granddaughter, but it’s tricky as their son is a vile scumbag. Her second one we have never met and never will, that relationship now thankfully being over!

We meet up at birthdays and Christmas. My sil's father is an odious, bigoted man unfortunately so I tend to keep my mouth shut and gravitate to the kitchen.

We are very good friends with the other grandparents. We see them almost every week. We didn’t know them before our children moved in together bit we have become very close and are very supportive of each other. Fortunately there is a Yiddish word ‘machatenim’ which easily explains who they are when we refer to them in conversation.

I have met some of them but not all some live a long way away and some abroad. I got on fine with those I have met.

Cannot imagine not meeting the other GPs unless there was an obvious distance barrier. We do the usual communal GC birthday celebrations plus GMs meet for private lunch occasionally. Very enjoyable. Haven't managed one of these since Covid reared its ugly head, mind you.

One set are a few miles away. DD&SIL invite us all to their house for birthday parties for the children etc and we all meet up on occasional outings eg a family trip to the zoo. Also we get together on Christmas Day.

The other set of grandparents are across the Irish Sea so less likely to see them apart from wedding day and christenings. But I do text my DIL’s mum and we exchange photos of the grandchildren.

I’ve met them all. One set are in Australia, so never see them, even when [sigh] we can go over there.

The other set live 20 miles away, last time we saw them was at a GC birthday party, about 10 years ago.

I have met all grandparents and have very cordial relationships with all of them, but their children ? That’s another matter?

I have met all of the other grandparents, four sets of them, and I’m very glad to have done so. One couple I would now class as close friends and I have cordial relationships with the others.

I’m wondering what prompted the question Begaa23?